Clinical Child Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Clinical Child Psychology explores the psychological development, assessment, and treatment of children from infancy through adolescence, with an emphasis on understanding behavioral, emotional, social, and cognitive issues within a clinical context. The course examines theories of child development, risk and protective factors, psychopathology, diagnostic criteria, and evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Through case studies, readings, and practical discussions, students gain insight into working ethically with children and families, collaborating with other professionals, and considering cultural and contextual influences on child mental health.
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Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology 3rd Edition by Robert Weis
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Chapter 1: The Science and Practice of Abnormal Child Psychology
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Q1) Brandi has been barely talking when around other people.From the perspective of developmental psychopathology,which of the following is NOT necessarily true?
A) This is abnormal behavior.
B) We need to determine whether this behavior is adaptive to her environmental context.
C) We need to know how old Brandi is.
D) We need to know from what culture Brandi comes.
Answer: A
Q2) How do developmental psychopathologists characterize abnormal behavior?
A) behavior that interferes with children's competence and does not meet the demands of the environment
B) behavior that leads to psychological distress, impairment, and risk of harm to self or others
C) behavior that leads to psychological distress, impairment, or risk of harm to self or others
D) behavior that is statistically different than the behavior of the typical child
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Causes of Childhood Disorders: A Levels of Analysis Approach
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a fundamental ability upon which young children's friendships are based?
A) imitating others' actions
B) having basic competence with language
C) understanding the self as an autonomous agent
D) understanding cause-and-effect relationships
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of gene-environment correlations?
A) passive
B) active
C) epigenetic
D) evocative
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is NOT part of DNA?
A) sugars
B) phosphates
C) pairs of bases
D) histones
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) A psychologist is developing a new test of reasoning.He notices that while individuals tend to score the same across multiple administrations of the test,there are particular test items that seem to give everyone trouble,irrespective of how well they score on the test overall.It seems that all the items that give individuals trouble use particularly advanced vocabulary words.Which of the following is NOT true?
A) This test has low test-retest reliability.
B) The items on the test that everyone scores poorly on are not valid measures of the construct of reasoning.
C) The test does not have particularly strong internal consistency.
D) Removing the items that don't seem to contribute to the overall score would likely improve the test.
Answer: A
Q2) Which classification approach allows a clinician to convey the severity of the condition?
A) full-spectrum assessment
B) categorical classification
C) prototypical classification
D) dimensional classification
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Treating Children, Adolescents, and Families
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Q1) The type of therapy that addresses clients' problems at the symptom level is called
A) behavior therapy
B) interpersonal therapy
C) psychodynamic therapy
D) cognitive therapy
Q2) What is the dodo verdict?
Q3) Tricyclic antidepressants,particularly atypical ones,have been shown to be effective and safe in youth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true according to structural family therapy?
A) Healthy families don't contain alliances.
B) Healthy families don't have boundaries between parents and children.
C) In healthy families, parents remain figures of authority.
D) In disengaged families, there are no rules or boundaries.
Q5) How does the ethical principle of competence relate to psychology students who are involved in providing mental health care?
Q6) What is the difference between cognitive bias and cognitive distortion?
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Q7) Why might it be the case that behavior therapy,overall,works best for children?
Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability and Developmental
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Q1) Which of the following is not a difference between children with organic intellectual disability (ID)and those with cultural-familial ID?
A) Those with organic ID tend to have higher IQ scores.
B) Those with organic ID are less likely to have medical complications.
C) Those with cultural-familial ID tend to have abnormal physical features.
D) Those with cultural-familial ID often have relatives with low intellectual functioning.
Q2) Which of the following factors have been found to relate to markedly lower degrees of marital satisfaction and quality of life in parents?
A) severity of the child's disability
B) low support from the spouse
C) lower levels of family-related stress
D) using problem-focused techniques to deal with stress
Q3) Heroin use in a pregnant mother is much more likely to result in intellectual disability in the child than alcohol use by a pregnant mother is.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Provide an example of universal design in the classroom.
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Chapter 6: Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Q1) The increase in ASD prevalence in the last 30 years may be explained by all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) greater awareness of ASD has led more youths with symptoms to be referred for diagnosis and treatment
B) ASD is more prevalent in males and in the last 30 years there have been substantially more male than female babies born
C) clinicians may be more willing to assign an ASD diagnosis, as it grants access to services
D) the criteria for ASD are broader now than in the past, and clinicians may be willing to assign the diagnosis even to those who don't fully meet the criteria
Q2) Martha greets Mindy,who has ASD."Hi,Mindy !" she says.Mindy replies,"That robot was the best one." This is an example of which of the following?
A) pronoun reversal
B) third-person self-reference
C) abnormal prosody
D) problems with pragmatics
Q3) Describe some of the evidence for the heritability of ASD.
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Chapter 7: Communication and Learning Disorders
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Q1) According to the response to intervention approach, ______.
A) a learning disability can be identified when providing evidence-based interventions to the child that do not result in academic progress
B) measuring the degree of improvement with intervention helps clinicians specify the severity of the child's condition
C) trying different interventions provides important information about the underlying cause of the learning disability
D) gauging the child's emotional reactions to intervention is important in determining the best treatment for learning disabilities
Q2) Prognosis for childhood-onset fluency disorder is ______.
A) poor; most do not recover without treatment
B) poor; most do not recover even with treatment
C) good; most recover, but it can take 4 to 5 years
D) good; most recover within the first year of intervention
Q3) White children are most likely to be classified with learning disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe how problems in auditory perception may result in language problems.
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Chapter 8: Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the effectiveness of special diets in helping children with ADHD?
A) No reputable study has found a positive effect of special diets on behavioral outcomes for children with ADHD.
B) A subset of children with ADHD seem to show a reduction in symptoms following a change in diet.
C) The most effective special diet for children with ADHD is one in which sugar is strictly limited.
D) The most effective special diet for children with ADHD is one in which salt is strictly limited.
Q2) Describe at least three reasons parents may not wish to use medications to treat their children with ADHD.
Q3) The majority of children whose parents participate in parent training no longer meet diagnostic criteria for ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the evidence that the dopamine system is involved in ADHD?
Q5) Would psychostimulants create any effect for those without ADHD? Why or why not?
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Chapter 9: Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents
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Q1) Mike is at a party where everyone is dancing close together.Another kid accidentally bumps into him,and Mike punches the kid.Mike's behavior is an example of ______.
A) proactive aggression
B) reactive aggression
C) rule violations
D) oppositional-defiant behavior
Q2) Using DSM-5 criteria,children can have both ODD and CD at the same time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A child sees a toy he wants in a store window.He asks for the toy.His mother says no.The child begins to tantrum.The mother is embarrassed and frustrated and rationalizes that it is just a small toy.She gives in and buys the toy for her son,and the son stops crying.What is the result of this coercive family process?
A) Both the child and the parent are positively reinforced.
B) Both the child and the parent are negatively reinforced.
C) The child is positively reinforced and the parent is negatively reinforced.
D) The child is negatively reinforced and the parent is positively reinforced.
Q4) How might academic underachievement perpetuate conduct problems?
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Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
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Q1) The anxiety-reducing properties of low doses of alcohol can best be explained by which of the following?
A) stimulation of the norepinephrine system
B) inhibition of glutamate
C) increased activity in the amygdala
D) decrease in the release of endogenous opioids
Q2) GABAA receptors play a large role in transmission of substance use problems from parents to children.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the text,which of the following is an impaired control symptom of substance use disorder?
A) recurrent failure to fulfill major role obligations
B) continued use depsite physical or psychological problems
C) tolerance
D) time spent obtaining the substance or recovering from its effects
Q4) Both alcohol and sedatives affect GABA.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the role of expectations in the enhanced reinforcement pathway?
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Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessivecompulsive Disorder
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Q1) Tamar was watching a movie with a violin soundtrack.At one point,a scary monster came on the screen and Tamar got scared.Later,when she heard violins,she shrieked and asked her mother to turn the music off.This is an example of which of the following?
A) classically conditioned fear
B) classically conditioned worry
C) negative punishment
D) association anxiety
Q2) Systematic desensitization differs from graded exposure in that ______.
A) only graded exposure involves a hierarchy of feared stimuli
B) graded exposure takes much longer than systematic desensitization
C) only graded exposure involves classical conditioning
D) systematic desensitization is essentially graded exposure plus relaxation training which produces an incompatible response to anxiety in the presence of a feared stimulus
Q3) Which of the following is a behavioral symptom of fear or anxiety?
A) avoidance
B) negative self-statements
C) increased heart rate
D) minimizing the ability to cope
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Chapter 12: Trauma-Related Disorders and Child
Maltreatment
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Q1) Which of the following is true about EMDR as a treatment for children?
A) It has never been experimentally evaluated.
B) It involves dreaming about traumatic events while in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.
C) It has been shown to be more effective than placebo in adults, but the mechanism by which it works is unknown.
D) It has been shown to be effective in adults but harmful in children.
Q2) In what way is a friendly,sociable child different than one with disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED)?
A) All friendly, sociable children display stranger anxiety at some point between 6 months and 2 years old.
B) Friendly, sociable children "check back" with their caregivers.
C) Friendly, sociable children provide verbal rationalizations for their behavior with strangers (such as, "That man reminds me of Daddy!").
D) Friendly, sociable children, particularly girls, almost always show more resistance toward unfamiliar males, while this distinction is not made by children with DSED.
Q3) In what ways is attachment universal? In what ways is it not?
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Chapter 13: Depressive Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Which of the following sets of individuals had the highest concordance for MDD and what does that tell us?
A) Monozygotic twins raised together had only slightly higher concordance for MDD than monozygotic twins raised apart. This indicates a strong genetic component to the disorder.
B) Monozygotic twins raised together had a higher concordance for MDD than monozygotic twins raised apart. This indicates the importance of nonshared environmental factors as primary in the development of the disorder.
C) Dizygotic twins have a higher concordance rate for MDD than monozygotic twins, whether raised together or raised apart. This indicates there is a strong genetic component to the disorder.
D) Twins had to have been raised together to show any concordance for MDD above that of typical siblings. This indicates a relatively small genetic role in MDD.
Q2) What does it mean that the influence between stressful life events and depression is bidirectional? How could that be?
Q3) Why did rates of bipolar disorder in children increase so much from the 1990s through the 2000s? What was the response of the DSM-5?
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Chapter 14: Pediatric Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
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Q1) Children of adults with bipolar disorder are more likely to experience all of the following conditions EXCEPT ______.
A) bipolar disorders
B) depressive disorders
C) anxiety disorders
D) posttraumatic stress disorder
Q2) Which of the following is a difference in bipolar disorders between men and women?
A) overall prevalence of bipolar I disorder
B) more frequent manic episodes in women than in men
C) more psychotic features in women than in men
D) later symptom onset in men than in women
Q3) Bipolar disorder cannot be comorbid with ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the neurodevelopmental model for schizophrenia.
Q5) Ricardo says,"I hate my schizophrenia.I've heard people talk about positive and negative symptoms,but to me they're all negative." How might you address Ricardo's misconception?
Q6) What is the evidence that genetics does not entirely account for schizophrenia?
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Chapter 15: Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Q1) Individuals with anorexia nervosa sometimes later go on to develop bulimia nervosa instead.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Facial screening is a good first treatment for pica because it is likely to prevent its escalation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following treatments is most likely to be effective for those with BED?
A) medication
B) CBT or interpersonal therapy
C) behavioral weight loss treatments
D) relaxation training
Q4) A chaotic home is most closely associated with which of the following conditions?
A) anorexia nervosa-restricting type
B) anorexia nervosa-binge/purge type
C) bulimia nervosa
D) binge eating disorder
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Chapter 16: Health-Related Disorders and Pediatric Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the primary questions professionals use to screen for sleep disorders in kids?
A) Does the child report dissatisfaction with sleep?
B) Does the child seem excessively sleepy during the day?
C) Does the child have a regular sleep-wake schedule?
D) Does the child snore or have trouble breathing during sleep?
Q2) Amber can't fall asleep because she keeps thinking about the moment in her English class presentation where a boy coughed and said the word "boring" and the class laughed.Even though the teacher had told her she'd done a good job and several other students gave the boy a dirty look when he said that,she cannot stop thinking about that one moment.This is an example of which of the following?
A) catastrophizing
B) selective abstraction
C) personalization
D) dichotomous thinking
Q3) Camps for children with asthma,cancer,diabetes,and gastrointestinal problems have not reliably been shown to have positive results.
A)True
B)False
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